Jochen Topf announced that Taginfo (a system that finds and aggregates information about OSM tags) has been moved on an OSMF Server. Harry Wood provides some additional information in his OSM blog post here. Jochen is also working on a data repository where you can test your developed OSM applications.

Frederik Ramm published a webpage that calculates the number and size of map tiles of a given bounding box.

Node-tileserver has been published. It is a lightweight tileserver using NodeJS. It can serve bitmap and vector tiles and is designed as a fast and easy-to-install tileserver that renders OpenStreetMap data.

November 18th, 2013 – December 2nd, 2013
A summary of all the things happening in the OpenStreetMap world.

A redesign of OpenStreetMap.org is live since the beginning of December, 2013. You can find additional information in a blog post here.

A set of improvements has been pushed to uMap. With uMap you can create a map with OpenStreetMap layers within a minute and embed them into your website.

Seth Vincent wrote an introduction to leaflet. Additionally, Chris Hill published a tutorial (1 & 2) on using leaflet. Leaflet is an open-source JavaScript library for mobile-friendly interactive maps.

Ilya Zverev published the first version of the MapBBCode JavaScript library. It allows for easy integration of maps into forums, blogs and other web engines.

Tobias Bieniek released a responsive sidebar for leaflet maps. Sources are available on github.

The MychOSM project (“My community and my history in OpenStreetMap – New Comenius project”) is the follow up to the “Life Long Learning Mapping Project” aka BoostOSM project within the Comenius program.